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80s Ultimate Music Quiz 2

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Test your knowledge of 80s tracks and music trivia. The 13 questions span 1981 to 1988. See below for answers.

Answers:

1. Thomas Dolby is the keyboard wiz who plays on Waiting For A Girl Like You.
2. Foreigner was stuck at #2 on the US charts for 10 weeks behind Olivia Newton John and Hall & Oates
3. Private Eyes was the Hall & Oates song that stopped Start Me Up by The Rolling Stones reaching #1
4. Susan Ann Sulley is the singer in Human League who is "working as a waitress in a cocktail bar."
5. Gloria Jones sang the original Tainted Love
6. Madonna was living in the East Village in downtown New York City when she wrote Into The Groove
7. The Into The Groove scene in Desperately Seeking Susan was shot at the Danceteria club
8. The One I Love by R.E.M. charted in 1987
9. How Soon Is Now? by The Smiths was originally the b-side to William, It Was Really Nothing
10. Soho is the sleazy 80s London neighbourhood in which West End Girls is set
11. Yes, a woman on the street can faintly be heard saying something like "it's Sting" at the start of West End Girls
12. Andy Warhol wrote in his diary on Sunday, 9 November 1986 that he liked the strong colors in Madonna's Papa Don't Preach video.
13. Don't Worry Be Happy replaced Sweet Child O Mine at No.1 on the Billboard charts in late September 1988
14. The original version of There She Goes was released in 1988
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